Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany was not the only country affected by her economic plight last week. All banks closed in Hungary for three days. In Vienna the great Mercurbank, largely owned by Berlin's closed Danat, shut its doors and begged for a six-month moratorium. Other banks suspended in Danzig and in Riga. The fire was coming dangerously close to France's allies in Central Europe: Poland, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, who must be saved to preserve French military supremacy. Had France overstepped the mark by demanding, as the price of a further loan, political concessions from Germany which no German Cabinet...
...sympathetic" toward the carriers' plight and ready to speed up hearings on what promised to be its biggest case of the decade. At the earliest, however, no final decision was expected before autumn...
Accordingly, most of the considerations appear to urge at least some concession to Germany's demands. Such a step would not only help Germany in her present plight directly but might induce the other nations to reduce the indemnity that was so rashly imposed by the victors...
Last week squarejawed, short-haired Editrix Suzanne La Follette, cousin of the Wisconsin dynasty, concluded that it was "only fair" to let her 7,500 readers know the plight oi their year-old magazine. On the back cover she announced: "... It may shortly be numbered in the depressing category of lost causes. ... Its founder. Dr. Peter Fireman, expected to be able to finance it until its income was sufficient to cover its expense. The depression has impaired his resources, so that he finds himself unable to bear the full burden. . . . We earnestly hope [that readers] will be moved to contribute...
...plight of those concentrating in History, Government, and Economics is particularly a subject for commiseration at this time. Honors students in this field have four examinations between now and Saturday night, while the less aspiring will have three to labor through. While it is unquestionably not a simple task to arrange an easy and convenient schedule of general examinations, still it does seem reasonable to suppose that a little more time might be allowed for so many examinations covering such a vast field of knowledge. When the department has had a little more experience with its new system of correlation...